The TMPWeb Portal is built upon open standards and open source web applications
to provide an aesthetic, useful, user-friendly interface to the resources available to
the Tropical Meteorology Project headed up by Dr. William Gray. This page provides
important information about the web portal itself, and lists the open source components
that make up the more useful parts of TMPWeb.

 Privacy Statement:
Even though TMPWeb logs all visitors, and their available information (i.e. remote host,
last page in history, browser type), we in no way use this information for anything other
than statistical analysis of our web traffic. We do not sell or distribute this information.
Questions? Email the Web Master.

 Open Standards Compliancy:
TMPWeb strives to be compliant with the XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 standards set down by the
World Wide Web Consortium. We will be running the online
compliancy check before the final release of this portal.

Open Source Solutions

 RedHat Linux
Perhaps the most well-known distribution of Linux. RedHat is nicely put together, has the
best PC-hardware support of any distribution, is easy to install and configure, and, best-of-all,
free. The company's home page is at http://www.RedHat.Com.

 Apache Web Server
The most popular web server. Apache is a fully modular, multi-threaded work-horse of a server.
Find out about the project and download the latest software at
http://www.Apache.Org.

 PHP Server-Side Scripting
Language
PHP is rapidly growing in popularity. It is a server-side scripting language, much like ASP or
JSP. PHP is set apart by its powerful scripting engine, produced by
Zend Technologies and the very complete database support that comes built in. It is clean, fast,
and easy to learn. The project's home page is at http://www.PHP.Net.

 PHP-Lib
PHP-Lib is a library of PHP classes and functions for commonly used web-site functionality, including
database abstraction, authorization, a shopping-cart implementation, menu generation, and web-site
templating (which is what it is being used for here.) The project's home page is at
http://www.PHPLib.SourceForge.Net


Squirrel Mail
Squirrel Mail is an open source email interface for the web. Written in PHP, it runs over the IMAP
protocol, and supports multiple mailboxes, allows users to read their email, reply to email, compose
new email, and even keep an online address book. Multiple 'themes' are supported through the use of
css2. The project's home page is at
http://SqirrelMail.SourceForge.Net.

 HTDig Local Search Engine
HTDig is a search engine written in C++, and uses Berkley's DB3 file format to store information about the
web sites it spiders on the local intra-net. It is fully configurable, and easy to setup. It even supports
templates for customizing the search interface. The project's home page is at
http://www.HTDig.Org.